Cookie Policy

1. INTRODUCTION

This document is drafted by Fabbrica di San Pietro (hereinafter “FSP”), owner of the website www.basilicasanpietro.va (hereinafter “Portal”), which also manages its content. The Portal uses a technology called cookies primarily to make its services simple and efficient for users visiting the Portal.

This cookie policy (hereinafter “Cookie Policy”), which should be read in conjunction with the information provided in the Privacy Policy (which we invite you to review), aims to describe the types of cookies in general and those used on the Portal, their purposes, the conditions of their use, and, finally, how to disable them.

2. DEFINITION AND FUNCTION OF COOKIES

Cookies are small files sent by a web server to the user’s browser. The user's browser automatically stores them on the computer and automatically returns them to the server on each subsequent access to the site.

There are various types of cookies, some designed to make the use of the Portal more efficient, others to enable specific features. Cookies allow a page, among other things, to store and retrieve information about a user's or their device’s browsing habits and, depending on the information contained and how the device is used, can be used to recognize the user.

3. COOKIE CONFIGURATION

Cookies can be classified according to various parameters. They can be first-party cookies and third-party cookies, depending on who manages the domain from which the cookies are sent; and session cookies and persistent cookies, depending on the period they remain stored on the user’s device.

Depending on the purpose for which the obtained data is processed, the following types of cookies can be defined:

• Technical cookies;

• Analytical cookies;

• Behavioral advertising or profiling cookies.

• Technical Cookies

These cookies allow the user to navigate the website or application and use the various options or services available within it (videos for facilitating purchases, social networks, etc.). These cookies, always sent by the web server, are necessary to display the site and any products/services correctly, unless the user modifies the settings on their browser, thereby affecting the site’s display.

• Analytical Cookies

These cookies allow for the anonymous analysis of user behavior on the website, which makes it possible to measure user activity and create browsing profiles to improve site functionality.

Cookies in this category are generally used to collect information about website usage and perform anonymous statistical analysis to improve site usage and make content more interesting and relevant to user preferences. This type of cookies collects anonymous data on user activity. Analytical cookies may be sent by the website itself or, as often happens, by third-party domains. When these cookies are sent from third-party domains outside the website, they are used to collect information about user activity on the site anonymously, such as pages visited, time spent, sources of incoming traffic, and geographic origin.

• Behavioral Advertising or Profiling Cookies

These cookies manage advertising spaces on the website based on the behavior and browsing habits of the user, from which their profile is derived, making it possible to customize the ads displayed in the user's browser. These are cookies needed to create user profiles in order to send advertising messages aligned with the preferences the user has shown on the website pages.

This type of cookie is not used on the website www.basilicasanpietro.va, and therefore consent is not required.

4. COOKIES USED ON THE WEBSITE

In more detail, the cookies on our Portal mainly allow for the analysis of the use of the services and content provided by the Portal to optimize the browsing experience and perform statistical analysis.

The cookies used on the Portal are technical and analytical, both first-party and third-party cookies.

Our first-party cookies are solely technical and are used exclusively to allow proper navigation on the Portal.

Third-party cookies are both technical, related to the display of videos on the Portal through YouTube, and analytical, related to browsing and belonging to Google Analytics.

Cookies are activated whenever a new user (hereinafter “User”) accesses the Portal or if cookies have been deleted.

For Google Analytics cookies, consent can be given by the User in one or more of the following ways:

• through specific configurations of the browser or related software used to browse the pages that make up the Portal;

• by modifying the settings for using third-party services. To disable personalized ads for Google Analytics, access the page: https://www.google.it/settings/ads and proceed with disabling.

5. COOKIE CONFIGURATION BY BROWSER

Below, we provide links where Users can find information on how cookies can be configured and managed in the main browsers:

• Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer

• Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox

• Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

• Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-us/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

6. CONSENT TO COOKIES AND OPERATION OF THE PORTAL

The User can withdraw their consent to the use of cookies at any time.

To do so, the User should disable cookies on the Portal by following the instructions provided in the previous section according to the browser used.

Withdrawing consent and thus disabling certain cookies may prevent the use of certain features and the display of certain parts of the Portal.

7. UPDATES AND CHANGES

This cookie policy will automatically incorporate regulatory changes that may occur. FSP reserves the right to modify this cookie policy to update its content, which will be made known and subject to new acceptance by the User.